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with many reasons for and against, none stand out as a clincher. None of the arguments for war stands out as a very good reason.

Unfortunately many of the arguments against the war fail to clinch it either.

When its a close call like this you have to be able to trust the politicians and intelligence with the information that they cannot or will not make available to you... but the politicians and intelligence have only managed to undermine any trust we may have had - dossiers compiled of propoganda copied

most of the arguments for going to war against iraq apply equally well to a long list of countries

Yes, but as I mentioned, I ignore many of the arguments for war (and some against war) as side issues. Conveniently, I suppose, many of the arguments I ignore would be the ones that would apply to other countries. Not a democracy? Human rights violations? Subjugating its neighbors? All of those, to me, are side issues. The U.S. leaders' job is to protect the U.S., which, IMHO, can be the only reason f

--J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

I think its fairly obvious that iraq is not a direct threat to europe or the united states.

I disagree, and many thinking, reasoning people disagree. You can't dismiss us all as idiots; some of us even know how to pronounce "nuclear."

Maybe they are not a direct threat, but they have tried to develop weapons to inflict catastrophic harm, have indicated a lack of regard for human life, and evidence a particular hatred of the United States. Finally, September 11 showed forever that people like that will

--J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers